The Dependent Service provides clients dependent related functionalities such as reading, adding, updating, and deleting dependents' information. This allows Administrators the ability to integrate their existing systems with BPS in real time.

The following operations are supported. For a formal definition, please review the Service Description.

• AddDependent
  This method is used to add a dependent's demographic information to BPS.
• DeleteDependent
  This method is used to remove information about a dependent from BPS.
• GetDependent
  This method is used to get information about an employee’s dependent.
• GetDependents
  This method is used to get a list of dependents for a given employee.
• UpdateDependent
  This method is used to update a dependent's demographic information that already exists within BPS.